{"id":779,"date":"2009-11-13T10:59:09","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T17:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=779"},"modified":"2025-11-07T10:29:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T17:29:15","slug":"sweet-potato-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=779","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Potato Chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Its a quickie today because I&#8217;m just swamped.\u00a0 And for all I know I&#8217;ve already blogged this!\u00a0 I can&#8217;t remember&#8230;I&#8217;ve been doing this daily for months&#8230; MONTHS!!\u00a0 God help me if I continue this for years&#8230; (eyes crossing)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Anyway&#8230; so a lot of people have different recipes for sweet potatoes and a lot of people do sweet potato fries.\u00a0 I do chips.\u00a0 Because when they ask, &#8220;what&#8217;s for dinner&#8221; &#8230; I tell them, &#8220;SWEET&#8221; (pause) potato chips.\u00a0 Since chips are a rare commodity in\u00a0 my house&#8230; they buy it every time.\u00a0 And they love them.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\">So&#8230;. peel said sweet potato.\u00a0 Zap it in the microwave until it&#8217;s squeezably soft (about 6-8 min)\u00a0 Then slice into rounds, i.e. chips.\u00a0 About a quarter inch wide, if even that.\u00a0 Thicker they are the more sweet potato taste&#8230; so slice to your preference.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Now these slices are hot and moist (I swear&#8230;this is NOT a sex blog!) and you lay them out to sprinkle salt and garlic powder on them.\u00a0 In very hot oil, you put them salted side down and salt &amp; garlic powder the other side.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\">And you cook them until they&#8217;re black on both sides.\u00a0 My kids love them and they get their dose of charcoal food plus some nutrition.\u00a0 And, my god its easy.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its a quickie today because I&#8217;m just swamped.\u00a0 And for all I know I&#8217;ve already blogged this!\u00a0 I can&#8217;t remember&#8230;I&#8217;ve been doing this daily for months&#8230; MONTHS!!\u00a0 God help me if I continue this for years&#8230; (eyes crossing) Anyway&#8230; so &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=779\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-narcissist-secrets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3376,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions\/3376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}